Monthly Manufacturing Statistics Malaysia February 2017

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1. EMBARGO : Only to be published or disseminated at 1200 hours, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS MALAYSIA PRESS RELEASE MONTHLY MANUFACTURING STATISTICS, MALAYSIA FEBRUARY 2017*
2. HIGHLIGHTS Manufacturing Sales registered RM59 .4 billion in February 2017 Malaysia’s February manufacturing sales grew at the stronger pace of 15.7% (RM8.0 billion), rising to RM59.4 billion as compared to RM51.4 billion reported a year ago. Year-on-year, the significant increase in sales value in February 2017 was due to the increase in Electrical and Electronics Products (13.8%) Petroleum, Chemical, Rubber and Plastic Products (17.7%) and Non-metallic Mineral Products, Basic Metal and Fabricated Metal (14.2%). These three sub-sectors contributed 79.6% to the sales value of the manufacturing sector. Total employees engaged in the Manufacturing sector in February 2017 was 1,042,949 persons, an increase of 1.4% or 14,648 persons as compared to 1,028,301 persons in February 2016. Salaries & wages paid in February 2017 increased by 0.3% (RM11.2 million) to record RM3,221.2 million. Productivity increased by 14.1% to record RM56,989 as compared with the same month of the previous year. *Notes: Data for February 2017 is provisional. The data will be updated based on the latest available figures and subsequently published in the March 2017 publication. Released By: DR MOHD UZIR MAHIDIN CHIEF STATISTICIAN MALAYSIA DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS MALAYSIA 11 APRIL 2017 Contact person: Ho Mei Kei Public Relation Officer Corporate and User Services Division Department of Statistics, Malaysia Tel : +603-8885 7942 Fax : +603-8888 9248 Email : mkho[at]stats.gov.my